Delta Bye-Election: Accord Party accuses APC of plans to rig

With few days to the bye-election to fill the vacant seat of the Warri South Constituency 1 in the Delta State House of Assembly, the Accord Party, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC of planning to rig the election.

The Accord Party is fielding Princess Shola Ogbemi Daibo as its candidate for the election scheduled for Wednesday, 26 April, 2017.

In a statement made available to Fresh Angle International Tuesday April 18, the Director of Media and Publicity, Shola Ogbemi-Daibo Campaign Organization, Mr. Ojere Eremosele, said the attention of the political stakeholders of the Accord Party in Warri South Local Government Area has been drawn to a “meeting held in Abuja in the house of a sitting Minister from the Niger Delta in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration where plans were made to mastermind the rigging of the aforementioned election.”

Those that attended the meeting according to Mr. Eremosele were APC chieftains from Delta and other South-South States, including a prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and major stakeholder from Warri Federal Constituency.

“The aims and objectives of this gathering is to carefully and craftily mastermind the rigging of the House of Assembly election using State resources, agencies and executive fiat" said Eremosele.  

The Spokesperson of the  Shola Ogbemi-Daibo Campaign Organization alleged that “the APC lacks the capacity to match the grassroots spread of the Accord Party in Warri South to win any election” and “has resorted to deploying relevant State apparatus to emasculate the Accord Party and its candidate”.

He stated that the Accord Party in Warri South, “condemns this act of cowardice in very strong terms and therefore wishes to register our stand and warn that any attempt to rig the election will be maximally resisted. Attempt to subvert the will of the electorate as expressed by their vote will be countered by all means possible.”

The Shola Ogbemi-Daibo Campaign Organisation reminded “the APC agents allegedly behind the ploy to rig the election of the volatile and restive nature of the Warri people”, advising “them and INEC to be mindful of this mindset of the electorates in Warri as well as other interested political parties”.

While urging INEC to stick to the rules of the game by giving all political parties a level playing ground, the campaign organization advised individuals deployed to galvanise and mastermind the rigging of the election to desist forthwith as the experiences in Rivers State during elections will be less mind bugling compared to what will result from their attempt to rig the election.

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